LONDON — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 2, 2015 —
The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference  Bentley Systems,
Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software
solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced General
Access to its new
ContextCapture
offering. ContextCapture is Bentleys first product release of
the Acute3D software technology it acquired earlier this year. The
software is ideally suited for any organization that could apply 3D
models of real-world context to benefit infrastructure design,
construction, or operations.

With ContextCapture, users can easily produce high resolution 3D
models of existing conditions using photos taken with any digital
camera. The software generates a detailed reality mesh incorporating the
referenced photography. This results in a navigable 3D model with fine
and photorealistic detail, sharp edges, and precise geometric accuracy.
These highly detailed models can be of virtually any size or resolution,
up to city scale, and created much more quickly than with other
technologies.

Bentley also announced General Access to ContextCapture Center for
grid computing power to dramatically expedite processing time for very
large models (typically involving more than 30 gigapixels of imagery).

Taking Acute3Dtechnologyto the next level, Bentleys
new ContextCapture offers significant new advantages to users,
including:

a new multi-platform browser plug-in and desktop viewer that supports
multi-touch and allows users to easily and consistently share reality
meshes on desktop and mobile devices, even for models of entire cities;

enhanced level-of-detail generation and adaptive tiling, including
tools for surface and volume measurement;

directly providing context for engineering and geospatial workflows,
including native support within MicroStation CONNECT
Edition;

Pascal Martinez, Bentley Systems director of business development, said,
ContextCapture offers a new and versatile way of capturing
reality to serve as context for design, monitoring, inspection, and
surveying processes, complementing Bentley Pointools
and
BentleyDescartes. Im pleased to say that reality meshes produced by ContextCapture
can now be intrinsically integrated throughout Bentleys common modeling
environment, by way of native support within MicroStation CONNECT
Edition.

David Byrne, technical director, AEROmetrex, said, With ContextCapture,
were able to automatically construct highly detailed 3D models of
virtually any size for our clients, faster and at much less cost than
with traditional methods. But whats most powerful is the amazing
context that it provides to facilitate better decisions throughout
design, construction, and operations. ContextCapture allows you
to create a fully photo-textured, geographically located 3D model, all
derived directly from digital photography. And, once the models have
been built, they can be quickly and easily viewed on any desktop or
mobile device. We think ContextCapture is going to revolutionize
the geospatial industry.

ContextCapture, and digital photography including from UAVs, can
provide any infrastructure professional with:

robust and flexible publishing capabilities to produce and publish 3D
visualization-ready models through a variety of formats and viewer
applications with the required level-of-detail  in a way that
maintains the highest quality but minimizes hardware requirements.